Wired.com is confirming the fact that the Motion Picture Association of America doesn’t like Ars Technica over the matter involving regulatory overreach. Wired reported that MPAA staffers may think along the following lines, “ars Technica opposes our attempt to gain ‘broadcast flag’ control over people’s digital devices,” they might say. “And it doesn’t appreciate our plan to censor the Internet.”
The US Copyright Office in the near future is going to have a look at a petition which could basically render content security on DVD immaterial. Just about every 36 months the Copyright Office listens to inquiries regarding exceptions towards the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, and also this time around the consumer electronic digital advocacy organization Public Knowledge is simply pestering authorities to legalize the ability for consumers to make backups of Dvd videos encrypted with content scrambling system duplicate security programs.
Wikipedia will go down for 24-hours to protest the U.S. anti-piracy legislation – Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect IP Act (PIPA). Worst-case scenarios of the proposed new rules are actually being debated. The Electronic Frontier Foundation speculates, “Instead of complying with the DMCA, a copyright owner may now be able to use these new provisions to effectively shut down a site by cutting off access to its domain name, its search engine hits, its ads, and its other financing even if the safe harbors would apply.”